Biography

KAUL, SMT. SHEILA

[Cong. (I) – Rae Bareli (Uttar Pradesh)]

Positions held

1959-65

1968-71

1971

1972-80

1975-77

1980

1980-84

Oct. 1980 to Dec. 1984

1984

1988

1989

1990

June 1990

1991

7th February, 1915

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh)

Married on 9th February, 1939

Prof. Kailash Nath Kaul

B.A., B.T.

Educated at Lahore Women’s College and Sir Ganga Ram Training College,
Lahore (Pakistan)

Political and Social Worker

23/2, Gokhale Road, Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh)

9, Motilal Nehru Marg, New Delhi-110011. Tel. 3010909, 3010991

Corporator, Municipal Corporation, Lucknow

Member, Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council

Elected to Lok Sabha (Fifth)

Vice-President, P.C.C. Uttar Pradesh

General Secretary, C.P.P.

Re-elected to Lok Sabha (Seventh)

Member, Committee on Public Undertakings; Member, Committee of
Privileges; Member, Joint Committee on Taxation (Amendment) Bill

Union Minister of State, Education, Culture and Social Welfare*

Elected to Lok Sabha (Eighth) for the third time

General Secretary, A.I.C.C.(I)

Elected to Lok Sabha (Ninth) for the fourth time

Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Civil Aviation

Member, Subject Committee on Science and Technology

Elected to Lok Sabha (Tenth) for the fifth time

Union Cabinet Minister, Housing and Urban Development

Member, India Literacy Board, New Delhi; President, Lucknow Film Society

Vice-President, Red Cross Society, Uttar Pradesh, 1974; Member, AIWC,
Lucknow Branch; Vice President, State Council of Child Welfare, Uttar
Pradesh

Social service, gardening, reading, films and dance

Badminton; President, Lucknow Cricket Association and International Club,
Lucknow

Widely travelled; Member, delegation to IPU Conference, France, 1971;
International Women’s Congress, Berlin, 1975; Leader, Congress Party
delegation to Yugoslavia, 1976; Leader, delegation to UN Commission on
Status of Women, Copenhagen, 1980; attended International Conference on Role
of Culture for Development of Man and Society, Sofia, Dec. 1980 and National
Commission for International Year of the Child, Sofia, June 1981; addressed
the Session of General Conference of UNESCO, Paris, Nov. 1982; First
Conference of Ministers of Education and Culture of the Non-aligned and
other developing countries, Pyongyang, Sept. 1983; and the 22nd session of
the General Conference of UNESCO, Paris, 1983; Inaugurated the International
Conference on Education, Geneva, 1984; Member, Indian Delegation to UN
General Assembly, 1985 and 1987; Member Indian Parliamentary Delegation to
European Parliament, 1990.